PROTAKACHE. — VNCII. 1 . '■',,') 



metathorax with some olive and violet scales; abdomen brown. 



fore wing dark olive-brown with some pale olive-yellow and violet 



Males mixed, the terminal area white; a while patch ai '< 



smitting a streak below median nervure ; antemedial line almost 



ilete ; a large elliptical white patch in cell on medial area with 



the reniform beyond it. narrow, indistinct with pale annulus ; 



medial line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, 



incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; subterminal line absent ; 



traces of a series of terminal dark points, Hind wing fuscous 



brown with traces of discoidal point and curved postmedial line ; 



cilia white. Underside of fore wing fuscous with discal yellowish 



Pitch and the costa yellowish; hind wing yellowish white with 



dark postmedial band. 



Huh. U.S.A., Arizona, Sta. Catalina Mts. Exp. 28 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me, the frontal structure examined 

 by H. (i. Dyar ; figured from a drawing from type iu Coll. 

 \V. Barnes. 



*5572. ?Protarache requies. (Plate CIX. fig. 4.) 



Cenirartha requies, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc Wash. xi. p. 21 (11)00). 



Head dark brown, the palpi paler; thorax and abdomen creamy 

 white. Fore wing purple-brown with a metallic gloss and irrorated 

 with pale purple scales, the basal and terminal areas creamy white, 

 the costal edge brown at base ; antemedial line slight, whitish 

 defined on inner side by brown, minutely waved ; orbicular absent ; 

 a creamy white spot produced at lower extremity in end of cell 

 before the faint reniform ; an incurved dark shade from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line brown defined on outer 

 side by whitish, excurved below costa, then oblique, sinuous ; three 

 black points on termen just above middle. Hind wingwhite finely 

 irrorated with fuscous, the cilia white. Underside of fore wiiiix 

 silky blackish, the costa, apex, and discal spot pale; hind wing 

 silky white. 



Hab. Mexico, Tehuactu (Muller). Exp. 26 millim. This 

 ies is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in 

 I ,S. Nat. Mus. 



Genus UNCULA. ... 



type. 



'.la, Swinli. Cat. Ilet. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. .~>2 (1900) herbaria. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to about middle of Irons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate; I 

 with corneous prominence with raised edges forming a transvi 

 it. no corneous plate below it; eyes Large, round; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and without distinct crests; tib lied; 



abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen ei 

 curved and not crenulate ; reins 3and 5 from nearai '" upper 



angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the II from cell. 



Hind wing with veins 3. 4 shortly -talked ; 5 nearly Cully developed from well 

 below middle of discoeellulars : 0, 7 from upper angle: with 



the cell near base only. 



